iPhone, iPod and iPad product news – August 4, 2010

iPhone, iPod and iPad product updates and announcements for August 4, 2010:

• Apps
• Accessories

Apps

• Matt Martindale has announced Locationizer 1.1 for iPhone users. This brilliant app saves users time, money, and fuel by reminding them about important things near their current location. Adding a location is as simple as tapping the screen and stretching a circle around the “Reminder Zone”. The next time the user enters that Reminder Zone, Locationizer 1.1 delivers a reminder, via push notification, that they have a nearby errand to complete.
• Sviluppo iPhone Italia has announced the release of I write Elvish 1.0.1 for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users. This app brings the elegance and beauty of JRR Tolkein’s Elvish Tengwar script to the devices of Lord Of The Rings fans everywhere. I write Elvish 1.0.1 translates words into Elvish, which can then be emailed to friends, posted to Facebook, or combined with one of the included backgrounds or users’ photos to create works of art.
• jProductivity LLC has announced myPhoneDesktop 1.4.1 for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users. By using Push Notifications, myPhoneDesktop sends any amount of text, long url’s, images and more from the user’s Mac, Windows, or Linux based computer in mere seconds. It also give users the option of pushing this information to their device to be viewed, or sending it straight to the clipboard to be pasted elsewhere, and much more.
• ConglomerApps LLC has released Infinity Organizer Notebook 1.0, their new app for iPad devices. With its attractive, easy-to-use interface and host of versatile features, Infinity Organizer Notebook offers users a fun, very efficient and unique way to organize their notes, reminders, messages and more. Users can edit and share photos and entries, choose between five different types of paper, GPS stamp their entries and use the convenient, built-in calculator.
• Cypress Point Technologies LLC has announced the release of Trin 1.0 for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users. Trin brings users real time Trading Index updates for the major American stock exchanges. Three easy to read meters are automatically updated every 5 seconds to reflect index changes, as they happen, for NASDAQ, NYSE and the Russell 2000 stocks, as well as the Dow Jones, NASDAQ Composite and Russell indices.
• AppsAsia and Korean-based NextApps have announced Booooly 1.7, an update for iPhone and iPod touch devices. Booooly combines quick thinking and strategy to deliver a simple yet highly addictive game. Players must strategically find ways to eliminate the largest number of the same-colored balls while juggling newly plummeting Booooly balls. Version 1.7 integrates Facebook and Twitter contacts for a whole new dimension in Booooly’s widely popular Multiplayer arena.
• I-Imagine Interactive has announced their featured Xbox Live Arcade title is now available for the iPad as Football Genius HD and for the iPhone as Soccer Genius. Soccer Genius and Football Genius HD are a challenging trivia game featuring hundreds of questions on the world’s most popular sport. With Soccer Genius/Football Genius HD, users have the opportunity to test their soccer knowledge in a fast-paced timed trivia challenge, featuring both text and image-based questions.
• No Tie Software has announced SkinCam 1.0 for iOS devices. SkinCam is a fun way to take photos using an iPhone. Instead of a plain preview, users are treated to an assortment of skins such as a Digital Camera, Coin-Op machine, 3D glasses, hands “framing the shot”, peepholes, nightvision, rifle scope, telescope, binoculars, and many more. Unlike the built-in camera app, users can touch anywhere in the Preview area to take the picture, making it easier to take shots, especially self portraits.
• Oakville Stamping & Bending has introduced Gardener’s Buddy 1.0, their plant mapping and recording app for iPad. Starting with a user created sketch or map, the app allows the gardener to create graphical overlays indicating plant types and complete annotated details. The app generates and saves 25 maps, and the gardener uses one per month to record new plantings. There are seven layers with icons denoting: trees, bushes, bulbs, perennials, annuals, herbs, and vegetables.
• Tidal Pool Software has announced Frugal 2.0 for iOS devices. Frugal compares grocery prices to help you find the best deal. It converts product quantities in both imperial and metric units to find out which actually has the best price. Now available for free, Frugal features an optimized user interface with intuitive item entry and large custom numeric keyboard. Sometimes buying in quantity is not always cheaper. Find out with Frugal and lower your grocery shopping bill.
• 288 Vroom LLC has released 7-11-21 Free, a free version of their highly addictive game for iOS devices. 7-11-21 is a new kind of Match-3 puzzle game. Instead of matching similar colors, players match 3 or more numbered tiles that add to 7, 11, or 21 before tiles reach the top of the board. 7-11-21 is a fast-paced game that keeps players coming back for more to see if they can beat their personal best or top the leaderboards OpenFeint. And it’s free.
• Punflay has released Rafter HD 1.0, the celebrated physics puzzle on iPad. Rafter HD offers more challenges within the 101 levels. It allows gamers to get the power to unlock and skip levels. Till now, Rafter has been following a sequential process, where the gamer has to proceed to each level in a linear fashion. The developers are keen to pep up the app with more exciting features to attract more users.
• City-Interactive has announced availability of its new game: Chronicles of Mystery: Curse of the Ancient Temple for iPhone and iPod touch on the Apple App Store. Chronicles of Mystery: Curse of the Ancient Temple combines features of classic point and click adventure games, as well as logic puzzle and hidden object games. The game puts you in the shoes of Sylvie, a young archaeologist, who is about to begin the greatest adventure of her life. Having received an invitation to France from her uncle, a renowned historian, she arrives there only to discover him missing. His disappearance is connected to the recent discovery of a mysterious underground chapel from the times of the Crusades. Sylvie embarks on a journey to find her uncle and to uncover the long forgotten secrets of the famed Knights Hospitaller.
• MotionObj has announced SimplyTweet 3.2.2, an update to their full featured Twitter application for iPhone and iPod touch. SimplyTweet combines a fast, simple user interface with a rich set of features, as well as offers built-in support of push notifications for new mentions and direct messages. Version 3.2.2 adds a smaller font option as well as several bug fixes. Pictures, tweets and direct messages can optionally be sent in the background for 3GS running iOS 4 and iPhone 4.
• Dot Next has announced Magnetic Alphabet 1.0, the iPad edition of the classic magnetic board game. Magnetic Alphabet contains 95 different pieces in 6 colors, for a total of 570 magnets to be placed freely on the board. It’s a real stimulus for imagination and creativity of our children, without the stress of having to learn features and rules typical of more complex games. It’s an ideal tool to help preschool age children become familiar with letters and numbers.
• In a world filled with danger, one gnome stands between order and chaos. And that gnome needs you…to chuck him. An arcade-style shooting gallery game for the iPhone, Chuck Gnome features a fearless hero — part garden gnome, part slingshot ninja. This feisty little action hero will fling himself relentlessly into the face of danger, battling dragons and demons while giving gamers that special satisfaction that only a good old-fashioned gnome toss can deliver, round after round.
• Iskandar, Inc. has introduced Cut Him Up! for iOS, their pulp noir brawler game with stylized, comic book, B&W animated graphics, and deep red blood spatter effects. It features a middleware physics engine for realistic explosions, both story and survival gameplay modes, a large assortment of combo moves, chainsaw attacks, and epic boss fights. The artist and developer, longtime fighting game fans, cite Street Fighter, Double Dragon, and Sin City as seminal influences.
• California based MediaLAB, Inc. has released Walkee iGuide to Disneyland 1.4.1, an update to their popular guide for iPhone and iPod touch users. The Walkee iGuide to Disneyland offers dozens of functions and features to help users get around Disneyland and southern California. Users can pinpoint attractions, shops and restaurants, map out their route and activities ahead of time, find points of interest and more. Version 1.4.1 polishes the already impressive map and text alert returns.
• Piston Games has announced The Screetch 1.0, their new game for iPhone and iPod touch devices. The Screetch offers addictive and outstanding gameplay with collecting Screetches that capturing cloudy spheres. Your goal is release them and catch all Screetches into flask. Each level will represent new landscapes and characters – more than dozen of Screetches can be captured and stored in Trophies section.
• Avici Software, LLC has released Whiteboard HD, a powerful visualization, collaboration and learning tool for the iPad. As a full-featured, interactive whiteboard, the application is perfect for corporate board rooms and work groups, classroom settings at all levels of education, training rooms for professional sports coaches, broadcasting studios and more.
• Avallon Alliance, together with JoyBits, has launched a photo competition celebrating the success of Doodle God (over 7 million players in just 2 months) and the release of the long-anticipated major update to the game. From August 4 through August 22, Doodle God Reaction Photo Contest invites Facebook users to submit their photo narrative for a chance to win iTunes Giftcards. The series of images should represent a combination of components causing some reaction – from obvious to offbeat.

Accessories

• Logitech has unveiled the Logitech Rechargeable Speaker S715i, a portable speaker dock for iPod and iPhone that delivers bold sound you can carry around. Featuring eight custom-designed speaker drivers and an eight-hour rechargeable battery, the newest Logitech speaker looks like a beauty and sounds like a beast.
• XtremeMac has announced the availability of its new iPad case line. Each case is custom designed to protect the iPad and blends fashion with functionality, durability and style. These new sleeves and cases are the first of an expansive and growing line of iPad accessories and cases from XtremeMac due out in the coming months.